June Events
National Trails Day - June 1
World Bicycle Day - June 3
National Egg Day - June 3
Hot Air Balloon Day - June 5
National Donut Day - June 7
World Ocean Day - June 8
Best Friends Day - June 8
Ball Point Pen Day - June 10
Father's Day - June 16
Juneteenth - June 19
Lesson Ideas
Read A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
Discuss how it can be hard to move up to a new grade or school.
Make a video for teachers where students tell what they've learned this year in one sentence. Teachers will enjoy hearing what their kids have to say. Use Clips or iMovie and share via Google Drive. Here's an example
Books: Rocket to the Moon (Sora), Starstruck (Sora), Daring Dozen (Sora)
Read 1 or 2 stories on rockets or astronauts. Check out these videos.
Books: Why rabbits eat poop and other gross facts about pets (Public library), Rabbits, rabbits & more rabbits!
Braille & Keller
Books: Six Dots (in Sora), Who was Louis Braille (in Sora), The Black Book of Colors (public library), Who was Helen Keller (Sora), Helen Keller and the Big Storm
Ask students if they know what all the dots on the board are used for. They usually know it's braille. Show them the Louis Braille book and talk about the accident that caused his blindness. Talk about how braille is written, using 6 circles for each letter and challenge them to figure out what is written on the board. Pass around The Black Book of Colors so they can feel braille and the raised images on that page.
Next, tell them about Helen Keller and the illness that caused her blind/deafness. Talk about how challenging it would be to communicate without seeing/hearing/speaking and how Annie Sullivan communicated by pressing her fingers into Helen's palm. Finish by reading them Helen Keller and the Big Storm or a different Helen Keller book.
Videos
Books
A Bike Like Sergios
by Maribeth Boelts
Sticks and Stones
by Patricia Polacco
The Brilliant Deep
by Kate Messner
All Different Now
by Angela Johnson
And Then Comes Summer
by Tom Brenner
Every Dog in the Neighborhood
by Philip Stead
Honeybee Rescue
Loree Griffin Burns
The Secret Life of the Sea Otter
by Laurence Pringle